A doctor accused of failing to spot Baby P's abuse days before his death is seeking to have her name removed from the medical register, a disciplinary panel heard today.

Consultant paediatrician Dr Sabah al-Zayyat was due to face misconduct allegations in February but the hearing was adjourned after a General Medical Council fitness to practise panel heard she was "suicidal", unfit to defend herself and had left the country. The doctor, who did not attend the hearing, is now renewing a bid to apply for "voluntary erasure" of her name from the medical register.

Dr Zayyat saw Baby P – now named as Peter Connelly – at a child development clinic at St Ann's hospital in Tottenham, north London, on August 1 2007. She missed his injuries after deciding she could not carry out a full check-up because he was "miserable and cranky". Two days later 17-month-old Peter died in a blood-spattered cot in Tottenham at the hands of his mother, her boyfriend and their lodger. They were all jailed in May last year.